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History Matters: Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez.

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The Spanish General Bernardo de Gálvez (1746-1786), hero of Pensacola's Battle"
Mariano Salvador Maella
Dr. Gary Joiner
Credit Press Image / LSU Shreveport

Airs Tuesday, October 24, 2017, at 7:45 a.m. Commentator Gary Joiner discusses the spainard who once Governed Louisiana, Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, Count of Gálvez.

History Matters is made possible in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine.

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Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”